BRAMPFORD SPEKE

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"BRAMPFORD-SPEKE is a pleasant scattered village, in the vale of the river Exe, near the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Its parish contains 115OA. 2R. 30P., and 393 inhabitants, including the hamlet of COWLEY, which is separated from the rest of the Parish by Upton- Pyne, and comprises about 500 acres, near Cowley Bridge and the confluence of the Creedy and Exe, two miles N. of Exeter. Near this bridge, are houses in the parishes of St. Thomas the Apostle and Upton Pyne. Sir S.H. Northcote, Bart., is lord of the manor of Brampford Speke; but a great part of the soil belongs to the Roberts, Blackall, and other families. It was anciently held by the family of Espek, or Speke, who appropriated the church in the reign of Stephen, to St. Nicholas's Priory, Exeter. It was purchased by its present lord in 1815, and had previously been held by the Pierce, Taylor, and Palk families. Cowley belongs chiefly to the Rev. W.H. Alundell, Dr. Blackall, and E.G. Roberts, Esq. It is supposed to have had a chapel, though there are no traces of such a building. The parish Church (St. Peter,) is an ancient structure, to which a north aisle was added in 1840. It has a substantial tower, containing five bells; and on its south side is an ancient chapel, or chantry, in which was formerly a monumental effigy of one of the Spekes." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

Brampford Speke parish is in Wonford Hundred, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter.

St Antony (of Egypt) Church at Cowley, Exeter - List of Incumbents provided by John Williams.

Binney, Thomas. The Great Gorham Case: A History in Five Books, Including Expositions of the Rival Baptismal Theories by a Looker-on. London: Partridge and Oakey (1850). xxviii, 249 pp. [Index]

Phillpotts, Henry. Letters Concerning the Case of the Appointment of George Cornelius Gorham to the Living of Brampford Speke, 1850, by Henry Philpott, Bishop of Exeter, and others. (1850) [Westcountry Studies Library]

Granville, Roger & Mugford, W.E. (eds.) Brampford Speke, 1608-1644. Abstracts of the Existing Transcripts of the Lost Parish-Registers of Devon, 1596-1644, and short notes on the extant pre-reformation registers of all the parishes in the county, from particulars furnished by the several incumbents thereof. Vol. 1 A-Bra. Exeter: W. Pollard (1908). [Full text]

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